An illustration of the St. Louis Custom House and Post Office in 1892. As appears on page 56 of Pen and Sunlight Sketches of St. Louis, a promotional directory of buildings, monuments, and businesses.
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A competitive design submission for the Missouri Building planned for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The design was submitted by architect Isaac S. Taylor and the illustration was printed as no. 857 on May 28,1892 in American Architect and Building News.
Shewey's Pictorial St. Louis is an illustrated guide to the life and times of St. Louisans and the buildings around them. Detailed descriptions of significant structures and historical events.
rivers while working on Lock 36 and Lock 37.
The prints cover much of the construction involved in building canals in the 19th century, and include portrayals of excavation and dredge work, extension and widening of rivers work on Carr Island (in the western portion of the Rock River), use of dynamite in lock building, pile driving, construction on concrete abutments, and other equipment and processes
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal.
Construction of concrete abuts. for dams.
Filling last form of abutment north shore Rock River
September 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
Construction of concrete abutments for dams. Putting up form for middle section of abutment on north shore Carr’s Island.
September 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
Excavation in Lock #36 nearly done and pile-driving (with horses) begun.
John Killeur – contractor.
A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge
Taken Nov. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
View of silt – for Lock #36 just after stripping of soil.
John Killeur – Contractor
A. O. Rowse – Engr. in charge
Taken in Oct. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse:
I. & M. Canal.
Extending north river Erub. by means of cars run out on floating barge
Erub. in Rock River.
December 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 2nd mile section
View of a section of finished work looking east from cross-bank
Grade of bottom 118.0 left-bank 134.0 right bank 131.5, banks are 8ft on top slopes 1 ½ to 1, bottom of canal 59.0 ft. Water-line 80ft. Depth of water is to be 7 feet.
A.C. Glass – sub-contractor of this section
F.S.H. – Engineer in charge.
Taken Dec. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
View looking east from Lock #37. Canal prism partly finished.
J.H. Flick – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken in Dec. 1892
Cyanotype print. Description on reverse: I. & M. Canal – 1st mile section
View of finished work looking west from cross-bank.
Mr. Keane – sub-contractor
F.S.H. – Engr. in charge
Taken Dec. 1892